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Paul De Man Inspirational Quotes (7)

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The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
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The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
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The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.
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Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.
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What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism
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Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.
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